Works
- The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, Doubleday/Currency, 1990
- The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization, Currency Doubleday; with Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Richard B. Ross, and Bryan J. Smith, 1994
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A senior lecturer at MIT Sloan who brought system dynamics to managers. The Fifth Discipline sets systems thinking among five disciplines of a learning organization and, in its appendix, names the system archetypes, recurring feedback structures such as fixes that fail and shifting the burden. The Fieldbook that followed collects practical tools, among them Rick Ross's chapter on the ladder of inference. A management classic written for practitioners.